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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



We returned to Crabtree Meadows that evening reach- 

 ing our knapsacks, which we had left cached there, long 

 after dark. Chaplain Clemens and his wife were there 

 before us, having crossed the Kings-Kern Divide that 

 morning. Their cheery campfire was a welcome beacon 

 as we came out on the high ridge above Crabtree 

 Meadows, and we were glad to greet them. 



They climbed Whitney the day following, while we 

 turned toward the head of the Kern Canon, having re- 

 solved to return to the main Sierra Club camp in Kings 

 River canyon by a new route. We cut across country 

 and dropped down into Junction Meadows over some 

 very steep bluffs that required careful going. We found 

 Mr. Willoughby Rodman and son and Mr. J. M. ElUott, 

 Jr., encamped by the main river and enjoying a feast of 

 trout and wild onions, in which we gladly joined. Shortly 

 after noon, they started for Harrison Pass and we left 

 them and turned into the Canon of the Kern-Kaweah 

 River. Just below the beautiful falls of that stream 

 where it leaps out to join the main Kern, we caught a 

 specimen of a strange trout similar to one which I had 

 taken in the same vicinity in 1908. Like a Golden trout 

 in absence of scales and spots, it has none of the wonder- 

 ful golden color of that trout, but is sooty gray and rusty 

 brown instead. I was prepared to preserve this specimen 

 in a jar which I was carrying to take it where it could 

 be identified.* 



We climbed into the lower end of the magnificent 

 Kern-Keweah Canon. Except for the absence of any 

 extensive level floor, it is strikingly Yosemite-like with 

 its towering cliffs and sculptured walls. Stains on the 

 faces of these sheer cliffs give evidence of wonderfully 

 picturesque waterfalls which, earlier in the season, to 

 one below must seem to pour from the sky. We followed 

 up the bed of this wild and trackless gorge past several 

 beautiful glacial lakes and finally darkness forced us to 



*Dr. David Starr Jordan states that this specimen is Salmo Roosevelti, 

 differing from the type only in lacking the brilliant coloring. Sierra 

 Club Bulletin, Vol. VIII, p. 75. 



